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Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich cannot do as much with the slighter material of two violin sonatas, but their urgent performances make the works sound eminently respectable and, more important, appealing.

"He has urged that this change be made and has recommended Dr. Richardson step in and serve as interim president."Even the casual visitor is liable to get infected by the air of urgency and excitement that pervades the site.

Davis urged him to come out as a senior, and Father Mannion agreed, hoping to raise Wilkens' profile by playing in the PSAL.

In the blast's aftermath, President William McKinley urged caution, but Theodore Roosevelt, his assistant secretary of the navy, did not.

The Hearst news-papers urged war.

Davis wrote feverishly, and Hearst ran emotional headlines that all but urged America to action.

Galina had the urge to catch that trembling fork and hold it tight, not to let it shake.

Galina walked downstairs, trying to resist an urge to run.

She had already done it: she'd already peeled off her clothes and urged him down on top of her.

Slav's heavy-lidded eyes bulged with the urgency of celestial information.

"I could photograph my cooking and maybe I could present it as a happening, or as edible art, or how about half and half?" The chairman urged my watercolor professor, Franklyn Mist (a man who loved my eclairs), to visit my studio and talk some sense, or some art, into me.

`One fantasy was proving especially obdurate: as he entered his office, the telephone on his desk would actually be bouncing on its console--Hugh Sixsmith, from the Little Magazine, his voice urgent but grave, with the news that he was going to rush Alistair's screenplay into the very next issue.

He'd been delayed for a week with the mulatto woman and the child in the waiting room of the airport in Loanda, lying on the floor, rolled up in blankets, gnawed by hunger and the urge to urinate, in a confusion of suitcases, sacks, children sobbing, and smells, hoping for an opening in order to flee from Angola and the machine guns that were singing in the streets every day, brandished by blacks in camouflage, drunk from cups of aftershave and authority.

The urgency of its coming scared her.

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